What's Hot in Electric Guitars
Grosh Electrajet Mini Humbucker | NAMM Showpiece |
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Fat Sound's Take On The ElectrajetThe Electrajet models are some of the best guitars we have ever played. A truly amazing, toneful and inspirational guitar design in every respect by which an electric guitar is measured. Fat Sound's owner has two of them (a dual humbucker and a dual P-90) in his personal collection and Fat Sound's manager (also guitarist for The Connell's) uses a dual P-90 version as his main stage and recording guitar. The variations you can come up with are nearly endless and the body shape somehow contributes to making these guitars more versatile than anything else we can remember having played regardless of the pickup configuration. Of special note for players who like to actually use their guitar's tremolo, this latest "510" design from Gotoh combined with Grosh's nut work and overall alignment and flawless build geometry allows for either subtle, smooth vibrato or complete dive bombs while remaining perfectly in tune 95% of the time. A string or two may occasionally go out a tad under extreme use, but a quick wiggle of the bar almost always brings it right back in tune again. As much as we love the Sunset 79 variant with the Floyd Rose, it is also nice having a truly useable, non-locking tremolo option for the player who prefers the more traditional look and/or tone that this style of tremolo brings to the table. The Gotoh 510 is a vintage style, 6 screw attachment, 6 bent metal saddle tremolo with a modern upgrade via its compression fit trem bar which is easily adjustable to either stay where you put it or fall out of the way when released. It's the best vintage inspired tremolo we have ever come across. Features and SpecificationsBODY:
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The New Grosh Mini-HumbuckersThe Grosh Mini-Hums are based on a vintage mini humbucker but with more fullness, clarity and output. Compared to a full humbucker, they're clearer, brighter and chimier but still big sounding with plenty of punch. They sound wonderful clean with a clear voice and snarl in a cool way when driven hard. And like all Grosh pickups, they have an incredible organic, three dimensional quality to them with excellent string-to-string definition. Wax potted and handcrafted in our shop using only the highest quality components. Alnico V magnets. 6.2k (neck), 7.0k (bridge).
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What's Hot in Acoustic Guitars
Collings C10 Deluxe Custom Mahogany | TV Yellow |
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Pawn Shop Chic Collings' StyleThis is a wildly wonderful C10 Deluxe Custom designed with an eclectic blend of Pawn-Shop-Chic "Mother-of-Toilet-Seat" appointments, A mid-50's Michigan electric guitar style TV Yellow finish over a Honduran Mahogany body with Collings' fantastic spin on the traditional parlor sized acoustic. It's probably the coolest, non-traditional acoustic guitar we've ever offered. Sounds and plays amazing....in typical Collings C10 fashion....while attracting an incredible amount of attention. The jaw-dropped, gawkers who've been both shocked and wowed by this guitar have provided the Fat Sound staff with a huge amount of entertainment! Based on parlor guitars first introduced around the same time as the OM, the Collings C10 is a leaner alternative, with the narrow waist and small upper bout resulting in a precise, focused response. Featuring a slightly smaller, more rounded neck profile than the other members of Collings' acoustic family and a uniquely shaped, asymmetrical "Parted Hair" headstock, the lines of which are echoed in the curvilinear pickguard, the C10 offer a welcome alternative for those who find that most small acoustic guitars look too much alike. We took this a step farther and made this one a definite stand out! Features and Specifications
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What's Hot in Amps
3rd Power British Dream 112 Combo | Black |
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Introducing the British Dream™: ‘59 AC30 or ‘68 Plexi – which of these beacons of tone do you prefer? You get both with the new hand-wired British Dream (patents-pending) all-tube amp from 3RD POWER. Meticulously designed from the ground up, the British Dream™ produces superb guitar tones analogous to the sonic character and feel of these two amplifiers all in a single package including: switchable tube output power (30w/15w), insert effects loop and a global Presence control for the finishing touch to sparkling high end. The British Dream is available in both a head version and 112 combo. What’s more, the BD112 combo takes advantage of 3RD POWER’s proprietary SWITCHBACK™ triangular speaker enclosure to deliver room-filling sound without the typical 'beam' associated with standard combo amp enclosures. Plus, the tuned triangle port comes with removable lid so you can go from closed-back to open-back operation whenever you want. Features and Specifications
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What's Hot in Effects
Wren and Cuff Tall Font Russian |
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Fat Sound's TakeFuzz Aficionados agree that the Muff fuzzes are among the best vintage fuzz pedals ever created, but put any 10 of these Muff fans into a room together and within minutes an argument will break out as to which era is The Best era. Of the 90's, made-in-Russia units it's common to find proponents of the "Civil War" era pedals, but the "Tall Font Russian" units with their signature clear, present and more aggressive top-end, mean low-end growl and hollow mids also have their own support group. The Tall Font version is capable of very useable, slightly sizzling distortion tones as well as very thick, smooth lead tones. And a cool factoid is that you can run a moderate gain boost or overdrive pedal before the TFR and dial up its gain just to the point where it smooths out and further refines the TFR's already very useable fuzz. Where some fuzz units are radical, raunchy, special effects devices, like all of the best Muff's, Wren and Cuff's impeccable version of the mid-90's Russian Muff is a very useable pedal that you just might find yourself using as a primary distortion generator! We clearly remember the release of the Tall Font, Russian units in the mid-90's and our amazement at how pedals with such......erm......funky.... build quality could actually sound so fantastic. Of course, like every generation of Muffs, these Tall Font pedals varied greatly from batch to batch and even from pedal to pedal (in '94 or '95 Fat Sound's owner literally lined up about 20 of these units in an attempt at finding just the right one). With the Tall Font Russian, Wren and Cuff has once again shown their devotion to building a meticulously accurate and consistent recreation of an exceptional sounding version of the Tall Font and they've done so with a more pedal-board-friendly footprint, without housings you can see light through, flaking paint, loose battery doors or the risk of cracked circuit boards due to low-quality, board mounted plastic jacks. Another Winner from Wren and Cuff! From Wren and CuffI have literally hand-wired (meaning point-to-point, no proper circuit board, on perf-board) over 150 muff and muff-related pedals in the early days of Wren and Cuff, then many many more after getting proper PCB boards. Why I mention this is because as you might imagine, my ears have become very accustomed to the nuances and intricacies of these pedals. I’ve spent many hours digging for some slight difference between a vintage pedal I love and one I’m building for one reason or another to be sure I could truly nail the sound. I’ve had my employees flat out saying, “Sorry man, I just can’t hear a difference”, then giving me the, man, this guy is crazy look. Why I mention this is to say that after all the muff type pedal builds under my belt, The Tall Font Russian was the toughest pedal to nail. Why did I choose the Tall Font S****K version to recreate? After a conversation via email with an acquaintance who plays in a very successful band this quest began. In his words, after being asked about his affection for these pedals he said: “Yet to find anything close. And (after) hearing a lot of players, rarely do I like their distorted/fuzz sounds. I really think there is a reason the s****ks are so collectable. I prefer the first series green ones with the screws on the side. The series after this had them on the top. I don’t like the civil wars or any others besides the green ones. In a pinch, I’ll use a screws on the top one, but it has to be green.” I was curious why he didn’t follow the standard, civil war muffs are the best Russian muffs belief. After some investigation I found that they’re very, very, similar in tone, parts, and values. Very close. But to me, the highs are more present and clear in the Tall Fonts resulting in an openness in the highs unique to this pedal. They’re generally not as dark sounding, which gives them a slight gritty edge not found in the war muffs. Some dislike this trait but to me there is a rudeness to them that sets the TF’s apart from the C-War. As usual with our muff-type pedals, I found that transistor selection was very important. After removing the transistors from vintage units then testing the gains I found some inconsistencies between vintage units. After some obsessive listening tests I went with one particularly sweet sounding pedal and matched the gains as closely as possible using a mix of trannies. I also was surprised to find an important biasing resistor and a capacitor that were a much different value than stated on the components and schematic. Discovering this helped to find that sound I was looking for! One of my favorite traits is a “boxy” quality to the sound that was the toughest thing to reproduce. Wish I had a better way to describe it, but “boxy” is what it is to my ears. It almost sounded right, but I couldn’t get a certain growl I heard on the vintage pedal and the boxy thing still wasn’t quite right..Finally, I tested the pots and found the actual vs. stated pot values were over 30% “off” in some cases. IMO this inconsistancy is partly responsible for one unit sounding particularly sweet and another sounding so, so. In other words, those absolutely crappy pots created a happy accident. After custom tweaking those pots, I realized that this was one of the things responsible for keeping the low-mid range from getting to mucky and is also a factor in the more over-drive type quality these Russians can produce. I found the growl! The kooky values found can’t be purchased as such so we have to mod each pedal’s pots ourselves to get the desired values. This boxy-growl also helps make them particularly great on bass, and fantastic for raunchy, less friendly guitar tones ala The Black Keys, White Stripes, Mars Volta, and many others seeking a nasty F-You snarl (not saying the afore mentioned bands use these exact pedals, just using their tones as a reference). With many other desirable muffers (and our Tri Pie 70’) the goal is warm, smooth and buttery, but the TFR has a different goal in mind. There is a growl and raunchy yet truly musical sound produced by these ugly green beasts. The lows have an overdrivey compression that keeps things tight, and the highs have a rich upper-harmonic thing going on that’ll make one understand the affection some have for this pedal. The mids have the standard muff-scoop but it is not as pronounced as some of the other generations. Add to that a less gainy/fuzzy tone overall and you end up with a unique muff with a character all its own. Good stuff. Sadly, my quest for this tone resulted in a couple of butchered vintage pedals, but the end result was worth it. The bummer about the vintage Tall Fonts? Cheap, cheap, cheap plastic jacks mounted to the circuit-board that beg to be given a hard knock resulting in a cracked circuit board. Equally cheap pots (knobs you turn) that feel flimsy, break easily, and barely hold the knobs in place making it rare to find one with all three original knobs. Non-true bypass tone-suck, no power supply jack, huge footprint, and heavy as hell round off the list of negatives the originals carried. In short, they could be a big pain in the ass. Features
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